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Tee Mac delivered a copy of the land document to Pretty
Okafor. On the 4th of May, 2015, Tee Mac prepared and brought
an MOU to this effect which both Pretty and Tee Mac signed. After being
threatened by OritsWiliki, Kevin Luciano, George Dureke, CharlyImoh, Chris Mba
and other accomplices (according Tee Mac himself) he called a press conference
denying and deceiving the world that he never gave the document to Pretty
Okafor, forgetting that he had signed an MOU. Above is the MOU they signed.
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"In view of the recent revelations of fraud and greed in the past PMAN, it has become necessary for me to write a tell-all about the machinations and intrigues surrounding the PMAN saga: its background, present situation as well as where it is headed. So that all could see, know and judge for themselves. Here I go":
The judgment from the Federal High Court that brought us into the executive of PMAN was from the two warring parties of admiral Dele Abiodun’s regime after he was framed up by some of his executives sponsored byTee Mac.
The party of Dr Zimakoy, Dennis Baker and another party of Dr Kenny George, Murphy van Anthony took the matter to court and it was in court for four years until they were advised to go for a consent agreement and bring in young and vibrant musicians, musicians who knew nothing about the old squabbles, so they are not biased and the Union can come back to life.
Well, they reached me and initially I declined and for more than a year they were on my case.
At this point no legal body of the union was operational. I didn’t even hear anything like Peace Committee because there were no activities, PMAN was an inactive volcano. Dead.
Still they came to me through my general manager who took them to my wife who listened to them and promised them that she will speak to me about it.She brought the topic PMAN up at home and I got vexed up asking her why she was talking about bunch of no goods, that all they loved to was fight and witch hunt and always up to no good. Spending time and resources on fights and dirty scandals. No I will not hear anything about PMAN. She insisted and asked “what if this is what God want you to do???”, then I replied then let God speak to me. God spoke.
I first went on to consult with people that have the industry at heart but didn’t have the opportunity to fix it. I called Sunny Neji, Baba Dee, Efe Omorege for 2face, Tolu Obey, so that we can have young brewing energy back into the system. I now sent for Dr Kenny George to come to my office and we discussed at length and I requested for all the documents and all the files of all the “courts”cases. Then I called the second Set Zaaki Azzay, Felix Duke, Ruggedman, Olu Maintain and Asha Gangali
I brought in my lawyers to look into what the old PMAN lawyers have been doing and also to go and find out if there were other PMAN matters in other courts, as I didn’t want to be caught in the web.Then I accepted to do the job of rebranding PMAN. That was when I told the older members that I am willing to work but only with the younger PMAN members and their advices will be sought after when it was necessary. The wise men agreed. We started.
Why had I insisted on the younger blood? The reason was because the old PMAN members were the reason why the union hadn’t worked for 20years, the younger musicians had no idea of the dirt lurking and I was so damn sure I didn’t want to rub them with the aroma of the Old.We all agreed to work and the younger musicians naturally got excited. The lawyers launched out to work but along the line I found that some of the old PMAN lawyers were also part of this confusion, lying and deceiving and plotting and blackmailing the Union, that’s why I had to let Barrister Duru go.
The judgment came, celebrations and felicitations flying from left to right, outside and within the country. The first thing Sunny Neji advised was that we should call all other parties and the Peace Committee people which we did.
Personally, I reached out to Kevin Luciano and he was always very busy and always promised to return my calls, did he? Like hell he didn’t. I finally ignored him. When I called Hajia Dangaji, she passed the phone to her P.A who finally came to my office for a meeting. Only her P.A came to have the meeting with me. I also reached out to Murphy Van Anthony who accepted me at first, visiting my office several times but stopped picking my calls after I demanded information about the remaining PMAN property in his possession, as he had once been the acting president when Dele Abiodun had resigned. I reached out again to Tee Mac Iseli, he ignored my calls but after a while he picked claiming he was on a much needed vacation in Dubai, and then he would be in Norway, America then finally in China. For over three weeks, I kept calling just to find out if he’d landed; finally, we spoke and decided to have a meeting with me at the Sheraton, Ikeja. At that meeting I didn’t beat about the bush but with pleasantries and all, I just went straight to the point: Sir, you are not PMAN President yet you have been parading yourself as PMAN President for over 7years, you still have a website and its actively hosting PMAN on it, why sir ???
He gave me a zillion reasons, then how he was removed from the office unjustly and that was why he took over and seized the PMAN website. (www.pmanonline.net). We talked for a while and I pleaded with him to hand over the Control Panel of the website which he promised to do. I also told him that I wanted to seat and talk with Kevin Luciano, so that we may all work together, he promised to fix a meeting with Kevin and me.
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Above is the page in the PMAN constitution where the name of
the association is clearly stated.
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After two days Tee Mac called me, said he has fixed a meeting with himself, Kevin and I. We met at Sheraton but Kevin did not show up. Tee Mac and I talked about the website and how he should have handed it over again and I talked about the PMAN landed property at Abuja which he also promised to give me a Copy of the C of O to sight and we would both discuss with the investors. At the same meeting he suggested that we drive to Kevin Luciano’s office, I accepted and we drove to his office in Opebi. There I finally had a meeting with Tee Mac and Kevin Luciano and presented the blue print of what I plan to do in the next 1 year 6months, I asked them to please come in so that we can unite and pull this project together. Kevin and Tee Mac agreed that it was possible to work together, but Kevin had one issue, he said he had put a lot of his personal cash into PMAN and that he wants it back. He said he has put in the sum at N28 million and I said okay that I’d speak to my executives about it, that I am sure we should be able to pay back once we start rolling.
But after about three weeks, Kevin Luciano and Tee Mac were incommunicado. I thought it very strange that they were both ignoring my calls. Then lo and behold, they went and filed a case trying to set aside the court judgment that brought me in, because Murphy van Anthony had cooked up a story that I have planned to probe everybody. PROBE? What had they been hiding was the next thing that came to mind. If they are so afraid of probe, then they must be hiding something.
Anyway, I decided that my executives and I would go straight to the business for which we came in for and swung into action. We went straight to work and had our first world press conference, a lot of people attended from the media because it’s the first time that PMAN was making positive noise in a very long while.
After our conference Tee Mac was the first to call, saying that we did not wait for them. And I said to him, you guys refused coming and are busy going to court and trying to set aside the judgment. Good luck with that sir, I said to him again, Sir can I have the Control Panel of PMAN website in your possession? You also promised to send a copy of the land documents in Abuja. He cut the call, I called him back severally, he did not pick, he did not return my calls.
I wrote to the host company with the copy of the court judgment. They sent it back to Nigeria to investigate the judgment before they obliged us and pulled down the site. After two weeks the executives suggested that we put the site back up because it was the most popular of all PMAN sites that then existed. Everybody had his own PMAN website, what a shame! When Tee Mac got the news that we had taken over the site, he was spitting fire threatening to squash me and all I said to him was ‘Sir, if I don't get the land documents from you in a few weeks a higher authority will’. A few weeks later Orits Wiliki called for a meeting, we converged at Opebi and after some 5 hours of arguments, deliberations and scheming, it became clear all they were really after was money! They conclude that Pretty Okafor run the projects, that his plans are laudable but they must run the finances. They had already formed their Financial Committee {Kevin Luciano and his team running the finance that will be headed by Oris Wiliki, Tee Mac, Chris Mba}. Charly Boy was there, he in his wisdom now asked “Abeg oooo, you say make Pretty run the projects, una go run the finances bah?, ehhhh, if money come miss, na who we go hold, Pretty abi na this Financial Committee?” That was how all hell was let loose. What came out of the mouth of Orits Williki next was completely unexpected! Orits boldly suggested that we all should go to a shrine and swear an oath! I was grossly embarrassed, disappointed at the outcome of this meeting as I had proudly gone there with the new and young executives. They witness first-hand the gross irresponsibility lurking within and understood why the Union was still at its crossroads.
No matter how well they used their wisdom to try to trick us we bluntly refused to follow that old path and the former pattern that made them all fail the union. I finally told the new executives that I will not go for any such gathering again, no more of such nonsense, very unproductive, time wasting and baseless.
A petition was finally approved by the Inspector General of Police and Tee Mac was arrested in January through the IG’s office. Tee Mac begged Felix Duke to plead with me that he had typhoid fever and that he would bring the original documents to Pretty’s office the next day, then I asked the police to grant him bail. When he brought the documents, I finally saw the document that nobody had seen in over 10years, the name on the certificate was a different name from the name of the Union. I asked why and he said it was a typographical error. Typo on such a sensitive document? Tee Mac brought an MOU to my office a few days later insisting that he would want to be the chairman of the building project of this same PMAN landed property in Abuja. We never had a problem with that, we were happy that he had a change of heart, considering that in the last meeting at Opebi still left a sour taste in our mouths. We signed the MOU and brought him in, not knowing we let a devil into our fold.
Tee Mac call me a few nights later and said that Felix Duke had killed him. Very agitated, he asked me to go to Felix Duke’s timeline on Facebook. I checked, Felix Duke had congratulated Tee Mac on handing over the property’s documents and showing that he was indeed an elder statesman of PMAN. I said Uncle Tee what’s wrong with this post? Tee Mac said that Orits Wiliki, George Dureke, Charlimo and Kelvin Luciano had threatened his life that they will deal with him for giving the documents to Pretty Okafor. He asked that Felix delete the post please, that this was not how he had planned to tell them what he did. I immediately called Felix Duke to delete the post. Felix, refused but I pleaded with him that Tee Mac’s life may be in serious danger, described to him how hysterical Tee Mac was and we first needed to make sure that his safety came first, then we deal with the post later, Felix agreed. The post came down. I called Tee Mac back told him Felix had pulled the post down and I asked him what the problem was and why his people were threatening his life. He promised to come by the next day so we’d talk about it. He never showed up only for me to read from the pages of the news papers: Tee Mac saying himself that he never gave Pretty Okafor any documents, that Pretty Okafor is a fraud deceiving people, that he still has the PMAN landed property documents. That Pretty Okafor has a fake judgment and that Tee Mac was never arrested and never had any meeting with Pretty Okafor. Sunny Neji was vexed in his spirit so was I but remembering Tee Macs threat, I told everyone what had happened some weeks ago, so we gave Tee Mac the benefit of the doubt and that since his life was in danger he may have done just about anything to save his life.
A few days after Tee Mac’s lies, I had a hunch, I sent the PMAN landed documents given to me by Tee Mac straight to my lawyers, and they were the first to confirm that the document was forged in CAC and same forged documents was used in obtaining the C of O from AGIS. After much deliberation with the executives and lawyers, we concluded that there was a high level of conspiracy and fraud. Having found out what we now knew about the forgery and scam, we the younger musicians decided to keep quiet and start investigating them, we discovered a lot but we kept working waiting for more documents. We decided to ignore the lies and step into high drive, come hell and high waters we will STAND.
For every event we had they laid in wait trying to mess it up. We had our 100 Days In Office which had a massive turn out at the prestigious Four Points by Sheraton V.I on the 13th February 2015. They wrote to all our partners with their slimy lies. Our sponsors had all asked for a copy of our Judgment just few weeks before the event, they verified our documents and the show went on as planned. We had our 1000 man anti-piracy match and 200 Days In The Office, on the 19th June 2015. The vipers wrote again, wrote to the new Governor Ambode, saying all manner of things, embarrassing the young man and our Union, and we still had a representative from the Lagos State Government who came, we still had our World Music day on the 21st June 2015. As usual there was more drama of a stupid injunction trying to deceive Heritage Bank to abandon ship and run for their lives. What did we do, we obtained an injunction against them instead. Another major breakthrough was the LAGOS STATE URBAN MUSIC FESTIVAL, LUMF 1st October, 2015. Ground breaking, earth shattering display of musical talents and legends, the drama was electrifying as comrades were treated in first class style as musicians really ought to be treated. Friends who hadn’t seen each other for years shared the same stage, eating, drinking, dancing and celebrating, it was supposed to be a night of music but it turned out to be a night of MAGIC. We were very proud. After the Music festival we hosted the A-list Actors in Nollywood and the Musicians to a fun night at the exquisite QUILOX, same night of the LUMF 2015. Little did they know that as they were writing our sponsors, they insisted on having a copy of our Judgment, they verified it, they authenticated it, and fired on with us even with more vigor than before. Their evil letters against us was just a blessing in disguise.
As usual in their plots, the ever fighting elders, since they could not stop us by writing to all our partners, they devised another lie. They went straight to the Registrar of Trade Union and asked her to stop us by all means or proscribe the Union. Couldn’t she see our progress, hadn’t she heard the new cry of the birth of the once barren Union, can one be so blind as to see the candle light and yet hide it under the bushel? The Registrar of the Trade Union? Trade Union registrar had sent a written invitation us to have a meeting in her office in Abuja. I was at the meeting with my executives Sunny Neji, Zaaki Azzay, Felix Duke, Dr Kenny George and one of our lawyers, Barrister Kara. On the opposing team were Kevin Luciano, OritsWiliki, George Dureke, Charlimo, Hajia Dangaji, Ayodeji Adedeji and a host of others I didn’t even know. The first problem was that she brought us to have a meeting, musicians with non musicians, then she told us that she was above the Court Judgment and will not regard or recognize it at this meeting and lastly that we must work with the opposing team, otherwise she will proscribe the Union.
This meeting went on for several hours again, and I told myself her soul had been bought, she had turned her heart away from truth and justice, I kept quiet all through the meeting and refused to say a word, she insisted that I speak but I still declined, listening to all the craziness I had been subjected to again. When my executives insisted I speak, I stood up and addressed her stupidity and gave her my a game plan by slamming her, her office and all her co- travellers, Tee Mac and 13 others with an injunction from the Federal High Court to stay clear of PMAN and PMAN affairs hence forth. At this point, the room temperature was above a hundred degrees Celsius, we could not communicate in civil manners anymore again because we just discovered all the evil plans against the Union and that the rottenness had a fowl stench, we stood up and left the meeting and told her we are not interested and will never be interested in working with her office until she is removed and investigated.
We came back to Lagos and discovered that we had a big rat in our executive, every time we had an event someone would be selling out information. How did the opposing team know what sponsor to write to even when we hadn’t announced our event publicly. It was from our very own caucus, our treasurer Dr Zimakoy. He later was suspended in September 2015 for refusing to account for the N400, 000.00 given to him to cater to the media for our press conference, he also stood as surety for his friend Mr Rahman Raji Mohammed who was to set up an office to help musicians, a sum of three hundred thousand naira (N300, 000.00), which he took and ran away. Dr Zimakoy was also going from state to state asking newly appointed PMAN State Chapter Chairmen for money which was a form of bribe, acting like he was the one, the treasurer, who had the authority to send their appointment letters from the National Headquarters to them. In a meeting with D rZimakoy after we got evidences from the state Chapter Chairmen in other states, Zim responded and said “PMAN is his baby, he owns PMAN and that neither of us have the authority to suspend him. After he acknowledged his letter of suspension, he told everyone who wanted to listen that he was known for throwing out and frustrating the past PMAN presidents, he was the first person in the Union ever to take PMAN to court and that he knew what to do, he had the singular power to hold my scrotum and squeeze them till I bleed. Dr Zimakoy, if you must know, was dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force for insubordination.
As a form of revenge, in January of 2016, Dr Zimakoy wrote a petition to Zone II, to the A.I.G with his sponsor and boss Tee Mac, stating that my wife, Dr Kenny George and I squandered a hundred million naira(N100 million) which was money given to PMAN by Lagos State Government in October of 2015. That I also squandered eighty million naira (N80million) from Heritage Bank and Forty million naira (N40million) from Airtel. I looked at the petition laughed and said to myself, this is a test on my person and I will prove them wrong. Then lo and behold Tee Mac put it up on his face book page that all three of us had been arrested and bailed.
Documentations of minutes of meetings where decisions were made, moneys were spent, ledgers, audited PMAN accounts plus my personal statement of accounts were all sent in for thorough investigations to find out how that amount of money (N220 million) vanished from the Union’s purse. Well, like I said earlier, I was prepared from day one, when I decided to get into the Union.
I wrote my statement and told the police to investigate all the PMAN accounts and also to look through the smoke screen which is Tee Mac covering his fraud by trying to give a dog a bad name in order to kill it. The police discovered the truth that no money of such magnitude came into PMAN, let alone went out. All are beautiful, rich fabricated lies by the masters of intrigue and scam, Tee Mac and Zimakoy. Tee Mac and Zimakoy created a whatsapp group to update all the pressmen he knew, I hope they are feeding them with the updates as Tee Mac had sworn to send me and Dr Kenny and my Beautiful wife to jail.
In my counter petition to the A.I.G at Zone II, the investigations into the fraud against me had no basis, so it was time to investigate Tee Mac and Dr Zimakoy, these two had been invited to Zone II by the same team who investigated my wife and Dr Kenny and myself, Tee Mac and Zimakoy immediately wrote to the A.I.G that the investigating officers were being biased, story don change!!!!!, One team X squad investigated this fraud matter for 5 months, Tee Mac cried foul, another team D8 started a fresh investigation with the same evidences, Tee Mac say na lie!!!!! Another team of Policemen D11 sent me another fresh letter to start this matter from the beginning. That was when we the executives decided to stop playing the yoyo with Tee Mac as if we were toddlers, I called the different police investigating teams and told them I was going to a higher authority, that this injustice had gone too far.That was how we moved to Abuja, straight to the Presidency and then to the IG.
Tee Mac has admitted to the crimes and his confessions were recorded and he still wrote it down, signed an undertaking to work with the Police and AGIS to transfer the forged name on the certificate back to the original name to the original owners. The greatest mystery is how the plot of land of 8.7 hectares of Land meant for Musicians in Abuja disappeared into thin air, just eroded away or weathering was a factor?
Tee Mac as I write is crying crocodile tears for peace; trying to deceive the elders that now he wants peace. He who has been fighting who from day one! Tee Mac what do you want? Tee Mac has defrauded and defrauded, now your cup is over flowing. Tee Mac and his battalions are parading themselves and causing discord in our beautiful Union, He cries in the public like a saint yet he has almost 7 cases against us in court. Who is fooling who? The plot Tee Mac had plotted for me, he has shamelessly fallen straight itno!
As shared by Pretty Okafor
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